Tag: star trek

lorcas-tribble:

michaelburnhamfanclub:

first s2 trailer!!

A couple of first impressions:

-That glowing thing Michael was looking at reminded me of the inside of a Bajoran Orb though that might just be a coincidence.

-Why does Pike’s uniform look different from everyone else’s including Number One’s? It also looks a lot like an AOS uniform and makes me curious if they can make the uniforms look more similar now due to the Paramount/CBS merger.

-How long is Pike going to be captain and who will be captain after him?

-Im enjoying Number One’s performance already and can see that becoming a fan favorite.

-I liked the music choice and how Tilly high fived Paul though I think purists would disagree with both those things.

Anyone got anything to add?

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

atomicheavybike:

rush-keating:

atomicheavybike:

cruzlovesmovies:

atomicheavybike:

You know how I want Star Wars IX to end?

It’s the final battle, and urged on by Finn the Stormtroopers have rebelled (because that storyline *needs* to happen) and Poe’s shepherding them to safety like the warm, caring person he actually is.

But there’s a weapon, because there’s always a weapon in SW movies, and Supreme Leader Ren is about to use it. And so Finn and Rey have to take him down together, in an actually well choreographed fight with the Knights of Ren in an actual set that doesn’t look like the staging for bad experimental opera.

By the end, Finn has Kylo Ren at his mercy. And then it happens: Kylo cries – he begs Finn to understand that he never had a choice, that he didn’t mean to turn into this monster. And Finn, who has a soft heart inside of him despite all he’s been through, is taken in by it. He turns his back on Kylo for one second. 

And then Kylo strikes, because of course he does. Only Rey’s been fooled once and she won’t be fooled twice – she won’t let the man she loves pay for making the same mistake she did. She intercepts Kylo’s blow and turns it back on him and Kylo Ren is killed at last, impaled on the light saber he used to kill his own father. And so we have a fitting end to the anti-redemption arc Kylo Ren started  in The Force Awakens and continued, despite all its faults, in The Last Jedi.

And the force ghosts of Leia and Luke watch and smile as Finn and Rey walk off into their happy ending together.

LMAO. This would be the most generic thing JJ could do. And it would shit all over the Skywalker/Solo bloodlines (and it would render the OT pointless as there’s no joy in seeing anything the original trio accomplished because we’ll know their bloodline ends in tragedy). BTW, in response to your reply to me about Bruce/Selina, yes, Reylo is like Bruce/Selina. The enemies to lovers trope. Saying it’s like Bruce/Joker is idiotic as The Joker has zero conflict. Remember all those intimate convos between Batman and Joker where they gaze into each other’s eyes and plead with each other to switch sides? No, you don’t. Because it never happened. Remember all those articles post TDK about what great sexual tension Batman and Joker had? No. Yet even Vanity Fair wrote an article about Reylo’s intense chemistry. In addition to Bruce/Selina, Reylo is also a lot like Vegeta/Bulma from the Dragon Ball franchise. Oh, and I never said Nolan came up with BatCat. He’s just the first one to handle it that way and give them that sort of happily ever after despite all the terrible things Selina does to him. Clearly Kylo triggers you in some way that makes you fail to understand that he’s a fictional character and not a real person who can harm you in any way. And thank God you’re not a storyteller, you actually think the best friends to lovers trope that FinnRey would represent would be good for Star Wars. Best friends to lovers is the most generic, cliche, overused trope in Hollywood history. In total, I just find people like you to be sad. You want safe, generic, conservative storytelling. And it’s like you’ve never even seen the original trilogy. The 2nd movie in the OT ends with Vader cutting off his own son’s hand, making it seem like he’ll never redeem himself. Even Obi Wan tells Luke that Vader is lost to the dark side. Yet Vader does redeem himself because that is the point of Star Wars. A point you missed because you’re clearly not a real Star Wars fan. Let me guess, you didn’t even care about Star Wars till you watched TFA a few years back. Yeah. Blocked.

PS: And thinking Luke and Leia would be happy about their bloodline ending that way…. my god, it’s like you don’t even understand the franchise on even the most basic levels. Oh, and John and Daisy themselves root for Ben’s redemption. John in particular is a huge Kylo fan. He’s even said he hopes Kylo redeems himself and that Kylo is his favorite character. He’s even constantly taking pictures of himself with Kylo merchandise he owns. According to your logic, that means John loves a nazi. 

Dude, I don’t know who you think I am, but we’ve never had a conversation about anything before and definitely not Batman, a subject about which I have literally no opinions.

Also I actually am a professional story teller and have been for more than two decades.

Oh, and I’m in my late forties, btw. I fell in love with the original trilogy after I saw them in the cinema when they first came out. I daresay I’ve seen them more times than you have.

All that aside, can I just say that hijacking someone else’s post in order to be extremely rude to them, then saying ‘blocked’ as if you’re the one who’s been offended AND THEN FORGETTING TO ACTUALLY BLOCK THEM is by far the funniest thing any of the many Reylos who’ve hopped onto my posts unasked has yet done.

A++ would recommend

interracial couple: *exists*

the joker in your mentions: ”this is safe generic conservative storytelling”

Yes, precisely. Plus I forgot to mention how much I love it when goyim lecture me on who I’m allowed to call a Nazi analog.

Abrams said that he saw the FO as a neo-Nazi analog. People can deny it all they want but that doesn’t mean he didn’t say it. That also doesn’t mean that it’s a knock on Boyega (or anyone else’s) morality to like an FO character. If so, I’d be worried about all those little kids with Darth Vader helmets running around. The Terran Empire in Star Trek Discovery is a fascism/Trumpist populism analog too and Empress Georgiou is still a beloved character. People are complicated and that’s why I wrote what I did about not assigning real world political beliefs to people solely based on the characters they like.

woodelf68:

spockslash:

adhdcaptain-kirk:

I found a little book of star trek trivia at my favorite used book store and the book was published in the 80s and I’m flipping through it and it’s like “dedicated Fans taping episodes of star trek ensure that future generations will be able to enjoy the series” which is such a weird sort of technology whiplash like we went from VHS tapes being THE way to consume media on demand and I’m over here in 2018 watching this show on my smartphone on Netflix and?? When the show came out VHS wasn’t even a wildly avaliable thing??? Sometimes little things give me hope, like a tiny book reminding me how much humanity has accomplished in 50 years.

Oh my goodness, there was no such thing as media on demand when TOS aired! We could not have imagined such a thing. 

Around 1970-71 a group of original fans in the LA area did what we could to make a record of what happened in each episode, because it could easily be a year or more before our local station might run any given episode again. Whenever a rerun was shown, we worked as a team, taking Polaroid photos of the TV screen at each scene change and writing a quick description of what happens in the scene.  These we glued onto poster boards, one for each episode, building up the collection over a couple of years (the rate at which we were able to see the episodes in reruns). The poster boards hung in a couple of our garages and were available for any fan to view with an appointment. 

We would have been so jealous of fans now, had we known the day would come when we could see episodes any time we wanted. I still find it somewhat miraculous!

Imagine if someone had done that for all the missing episodes of Doctor Who, how valued those pictures would be.

autisticrevolution:

Beware the autistic headcanons

I know Tumblr absolutely loves to claim various characters for certain groups (LGBT, certain disabilities, etc). Even if there’s absolutely nothing in a character’s official canon to support a certain conclusion (i.e: the character never demonstrates any traits that are characteristic of the group claiming that character), it doesn’t stop people from claiming them. Hell, I myself have done this with Ice Bear from We Bare Bears.

But we need to be careful about the potential exploitation of the creators of certain characters.

Take JK Rowling for example: for years, she claimed that Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series was gay. But once gay issues were no longer trendy enough to make her look good for making a gay character, she dropped his homosexuality. She casted Hermione as white in the Harry Potter movies, but suddenly decided to make her black so she could profit from the controversy surrounding the play in which Hermione was played by a black actress.

Long story short: she doesn’t give a fuck about representing any minority groups unless it puts her in the spotlight and gets her even more money.

Be careful about claiming characters who we have no reason to believe are autistic; the creators of these characters will take all the money they can from the popularity and then jump ship when autistic characters are no longer trendy and profitable.

If you need a fictional autistic character to relate to, make your own, or read any of the numerous stories written by autistic authors. Let’s have representation that won’t vanish when our demographic is no longer seen as profitable.

I appreciated that the Star Trek Discovery writers didn’t do that with Sylvia Tilly when they found out that some fans were headcanoning her as autistic. They just said, without judgement toward the fans, that they never intended for her to be that way and left it at that. 

lorcas-tribble:

creativitycache:

*cracks knuckles*

Julian Bashir was born autistic, and after undergoing genetic augmentation retains several autistic characteristics but no longer perfectly fits the diagnosis. Because of this he never received any help or guidance with his autistic traits.

The alien doctors who performed the augmentation were not experts in human autism, so to them Bashir looked as though the augmentation was a complete success. His parents were so thrilled with the change they did’t allow themselves to acknowledge they didn’t get the son they paid for. If they had they undoubtably would have taken him back for more “fixing”.

Julian himself doesn’t know.

Also the way genetically enhanced people are treated in DS9 by society is as if they have “sci-fi autism” anyway